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tfabris ([personal profile] tfabris) wrote2007-02-27 09:56 am

Bridge Over the River Google

Hereoes episode 17, "Company Man", aired Monday Feb 26, 2007. Several scenes prominently feature a bridge. A single arch concrete span with two lanes.

When viewing the episode, I was certain it was the Foresthill bridge near Auburn, CA, which was used at the beginning of the Vin Diesel movie "XXX". It seems my personal memory of the Foresthill bridge was wrong, because the Foresthill bridge is actually all steel with split lanes.

A bunch of obsessive and unhealthy googling by me and Susan followed.

I see that the bridge looks architecturally the most like the Bixby Creek Bridge on CA highway 1. However, the countryside doesn't exactly match what's seen in the episode (although it's close).

If you freezeframe the episode in highdef, you can read a roadsign near the bridge which reads "Odessa 40 Midland 55 Big Spring 225". I assumed they faked the sign because they wanted you to think the bridge was really in Texas. Also, if you look at a map of Odessa, you see that Big Spring is quite close to Odessa, and there's no way it could be that far off on any highway sign.

No resolution yet. Anyone got an idea of which bridge was used in the episode? This is a completely odd and unhealthy obsession that I've got going here, and I need closure.

EDIT: You all are a bunch of wussies. :-) My freinds at the Empeg BBS found it. They can find anything. It's the Big Tujunga Narrows bridge near Los Angeles. We have added this fact to the Heroes Wiki and all is now right with the world.

[identity profile] blackpaladin.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
See, and here all I did was freeze-frame the scene where Sylar had locked Bennet in the holding cell and was taunting him with his own driver's license, just on the off-chance that the producers might have slipped up and we'd actually get a chance to see what his first name was. (No luck, by the way. It just says "Bennet." Rat bastards.)

Isn't it a wonderful feeling to know that your friends are just as OCD as you are? And over the same things, even?

[identity profile] tfabris.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't even get me started on the stuff they put into "Lost" specifically for the freezeframe obsessed among us. Like the tattoo on the shark...

[identity profile] pondside.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
If you get really really disparate, I'll bet you can write to the production company and they might even tell you :) or again...